Book-binding and book



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` BooK BINDING AND BooK. l

No. 381,252. PatentedApr. 17,1888. l

PATENT l OFFICE;

' WILL M5 KINNARD,

or DAYTON, oHIo.

f BooK-[BlNDlNG AND BooK. i

SPECIFICATION forming part of Leners Patent No. 381,252, dated Aprilr 171sea. l

Application filed september 1o, 1887. seal No, 249,300. y (No meer.)

I .To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, WILL M. KINNARD, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Dayton, county of Montgomery ,and State of Ohio,have` invented certain new and useful Improvements in Book-Binding and Books, of which the folf lowing isa full, clear, and exact descriptiom reference being had to thea'ccompany'ing drawings, forming' part of this specification.

book-binding and the'improved book pro- -duced thereby, and is more especially adapted for use in binding large'blankbooks, and isdesigned to produce a more compact and stronger book, so bound that when spread out for use the leaves willv lie dat, or substantially flat, without any gap at the back. It is also more economical in construction, both in material and labor.

natures or sections of the book toroundor oval cordsg, These cords are then fastened to the back of the book in the usual manner.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a book showing my improvedbinding." Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a section of a Vbook preparedto receive the cord. Fig.3 is a similar View ofa section with the cord laid in place to befastened.

Fig. 4 shows a section with the cord attached. Fig. 5 shows a section having an ovalor flattened cord instead of a round one. Fig. 6

. shows a number of sections laid together to be leather or bookmuslin, B,'the edges of the,v strip being left free. Between these edges or wings is inserted a cord, C, of any desiredsiz'e.

5 The redges of the strip are then'wrapped around the cord tightly and yglued or fastened in any convenient way, any surplus muslin or leather being cutaway, as shown in Fig. 4. A number of sections or signatures being pre- My invention relates to an improvement inV It consists in stitching or fastening th sig- `pared in this way, theyare laid up` aS ShOrWn in Fig.k 6, eachA one being securely fastened to usual manner, after which theyare attached to the back F, Fig. 1, and thefcover G, injthe usual4 manner. f f

cord may be wrappedfirst and stitched direct tached to a solid y compact body intervening' between the sectionand the back of the'book by a joint that remains perfectly ilexible and sections and the backing is reduced toa 4mini-h Y mum, giving` the book a compactness that prevents the sagging of the leaves or s'ecti'onspor their breaking off, and also avoids anyfwide gap between the right and left sides of theY terial is needed and the labor of binding is reduced. The book can -befmademuch shorter betweenthe back andthe outer edges of the leaves, thus occupying considerably less room Vinasafe.

-I 1am aware that blank-books have been Yor sections and the back thebook, and do not broadly claim such aconstruction; lvbut,

as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

book-binding, which consists in attaching the to which the sections are attached by'a eXible joint, substantially as and'for the purpose described.`

strong. The space between the edges of the 2. `The above described improvement in .book-binding, which consists in stitching theY sections to a strip ofy leather or book-'muslim in thebinding-strips of vparchment D, in theff f to the sections, the stitching-threads passing j ythrough the cord, thong-h this is not calcu- Y f lated to make the jointibetween the cord andn section so flexible as ythe other method. this construction each section is firmly at-. y

vbook Iwhen it is spread fopen. Much less mabound with aflexible joi tbetween the leaves l. The above-described improvement inA 9esectionsrof the book to thebackloy` means of l an intervening compactround yor'ov'albody,l v

and then inserting and wrapping the cord, the 6o t l Havingdescribedmyinyention,whatlclaim' intervening between the sections of the book and the back and attached to the sections by 1o a. flexible `joint, substantially as and for the purpose described.

` WILL M. KINNARD.

Vitnesses:

ALFRED M. ALLEN, GEORGE F; HEIDMAN. 

